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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.
(a) Universal.
(b) Honest.
(c) Scattered.
(d) Peaceful.

2. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) Plato's Cave.
(b) The Loyalty of Plato.
(c) Plato's Republic.
(d) The Republic of Plato.

3. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Obscure.
(b) Positive.
(c) Irrelevant.
(d) Modern.

4. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.
(a) Moving.
(b) Vapid.
(c) Normal.
(d) Still.

5. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) True desire.
(b) God.
(c) The world.
(d) The ether.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.

2. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

3. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

4. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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